Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains-Chapter 896 - 390. The Trouble of Becoming Saint, New Moon Festival

Ascension to Sainthood.

These two simple words are the unattainable goal martial artists across all of Shenzhou spend their lives pursuing. Throughout the thirteen provinces of The World, from before the time of the Great Yu Dynasty to now, Shenzhou’s recorded history spans over four thousand years. Countless powerful martial artists have adorned the night like stars, but the number of Saints that have emerged totals only a little more than twenty.

Calculated like this, some might be puzzled, thinking the number should be higher.

In the current era alone, the Great Jin boasts six Saints, with each of the Eight Great Sacred Lands also housing at least one. More powerful sects like the Ziqing Holy Sect have two, the Bailu Academy has two, and there’s the recently deceased Shi Tian and Emperor Yu Jiang Bufan who died five years ago. By this count, there are already eighteen Saints in the contemporary era; how is it possible there have only been a little over twenty Saints in over four thousand years?

Yet, this is indeed the reality. Apart from the eighteen contemporary Saints, the number of historically recorded Saints in The World totals only six: Jiang Shenyang of the Yu Shenzong, the Master, Jiang Tianming of the Wuzong, Zhan Taiyuntian of the Brahman Sect, and the legendary Demon Consort Meng Qiuli.

The lifespan of a Saint is extraordinarily long, lasting five to six thousand years. Of the eighteen contemporary Saints, many have already lived on this land long before; they themselves are walking histories. People often confuse them as beings of the present rather than the past.

For example, Shitian Buddha, once just a small monk chanting scriptures beside the Yu Shenzong, or Zhao Yulong of Qinjian Villa, the former Grand Marshal of Soldiers and Horses during the era of the Great Yu Dynasty; and Yuwen Hongzhang, founder of the Great Jin, was the Imperial Guard General of the Great Yu.

These Saints, more or less, have connections to the Holy Sect, ruling The World from over a thousand, even two thousand years ago, to now.

Across the thirteen provinces of The World, with today’s population numbering in the tens of billions, and the uncountable numbers from the past four thousand years, the number of martial artists is conservatively in the tens of billions. Yet, Saints have remained just over twenty.

Looking purely at this ratio, one can see how arduous it is to attain Sainthood.

Hou Yuxiao’s desire to become a Saint is no less challenging than leading Hexi from an obscure little clan in Zhaoyang County to the ruler of today’s Hexi Dao.

Knowing full well the difficulty, Hou Yuxiao dared not waste a single moment. From the end of the Battle of Jianye Prefecture in early July to now, two months have passed, and he remained in the Five Elements Heaven. Calculated by a hundredfold time acceleration, that equals more than sixteen years. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

In these sixteen years, his achievements now hover in the sky of the Five Elements Heaven, an almost nine thousand zhang tall shadow of a Demon Ape Martial Spirit, enveloped in black fog, its abdominal Star Sea Holy Core glistening brilliantly. Even when motionless, the Martial Spirit continuously emanates a terrifying aura.

The sign of a Sub-saint is the fusion of a refined Star Sea Holy Core in the dantian with the Martial Spirit on the divine platform, cultivating a thousand zhang Martial Spirit shadow. Throughout the Sub-saint stage, one continuously enlarges the Martial Spirit shadow.

Only upon reaching ten thousand zhang is it considered saturated.

After achieving saturation, one is said to have the qualification to attempt ascension to Sainthood.

Hence, the current problem is that Hou Yuxiao, over these sixteen years, has not even reached the Sub-Saint Peak, let alone achieved Sainthood.

The expansion process of the Martial Spirit shadow is torturously slow, even in the Five Elements Heaven, rich with spiritual power suited for cultivation. Despite his relentless sixteen years of tireless cultivation, he barely reached nine thousand zhang. The critical issue is that the enlargement process slows down the further it progresses; he estimates the remaining thousand zhang would take at least a hundred years.

A century in time equates to one year in the Five Elements Heaven. Although it sounds like a blink of an eye, it requires ten million Karmic Obstacles daily to maintain the altered time flow rate in the Five Elements Heaven. Uninterrupted for a year, it would take at least 3.6 billion Karmic Obstacles.

This is assuming he uses the Karmic Obstacles solely for the Five Elements Heaven without allocating to other areas. With a current population of eighty million in Hexi Dao, he’s looking at over two years of accumulation.

In the absence of any changes, a mere two years would be bearable for Hou Yuxiao. However, if the Great Jin manages to slay Long Yu within two years, Hexi’s situation will rapidly become perilous. He simply doesn’t have the luxury of time to wait, and alongside strengthening his family’s power, he needs to continuously expend Karmic Obstacle Value, preventing him from accumulating it.

Even in the best-case scenario where he does amass the 3.6 billion and successfully cultivates for a century in the Five Elements Heaven, he would merely reach the Sub-Saint Peak, only qualifying to attempt the Saint Realm, not achieving Sainthood.

A flicker of worry passed through Hou Yuxiao’s eyes. His goal is to become a Saint, yet he’s not even at the Sub-Saint Peak.

Hexi appears favorable for now, but all of this rests on a calm Shenzhou. If the Great Jin slays Long Yu, Hexi will be forced to align with one of the three factions. Given Hexi’s current strength, whichever side it chooses may lead to catastrophic disaster.

Every day, Hou Yuxiao is consumed with anxiety, frequently seeking out Hou Yuling to confirm any news, fearing that the Great Jin might have found Long Yu. Thankfully, for more than two consecutive months, there has been no news from Hou Yuling’s side.

As long as the Great Jin keeps things stable, he has time. Instead of worrying aimlessly, it’s better to continue strengthening his power. While the Great Jin keeps failing to locate Long Yu, something else might change halfway through. If an opportunity arises and he can’t seize it in time, it would be a pity.

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